Elysia subornata A. E. Verril 1901
Description
10. Elysia subornata A.E. Verril, 1901 (Fig. 2J)
Material examined: Praia de Pirambúzios, Nísia Floresta, 21.VI.2009, one specimen, 14 mm (body length), leg. V. Padula (MZSP 97050), 13.II.2010, five specimens, 1-3 mm (body length), leg. M. Delgado (GEEFAA 310), 28.II.2010, two specimens, 4 mm (body length), phot. reg. M. Delgado; 14.IV.2010, three specimens, 7-10 mm (body length),leg. M. Delgado (GEEFAA 264 a). 07.IV.2011, two specimens, 8-19 mm (body length), leg. M. Delgado (GEEFAA 282). 05.I.2012, one specimen (lost), 8 mm (body length). 27.IV.2013, five specimens, 2-10 mm (body length), phot. reg. M. Delgado.
Description: Elongated and cylindrical body. Background color light green, speckled with black dots all over the body. Head prominent with black eyes at the base of the rhinophores, which is oblique, elongated and curled. Rhinophores prostrate to the sides, with a groove on the anterior side between them. From the base to the apex lined with small light beige tubercles.On the back there is a visible and voluminous pericardium with tubercles over it.
Geographic distribution: Eastern Atlantic: Canary Islands, Cape Verde, Madeira, Savage Islands. Western Atlantic: Aruba, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda, Bonaire, Cayman Islands, Costa Rica, CuraÇao, Guadeloupe, Jamaica, Martinique, Mexico, Puerto Rico, St. Martin / St. Maarten, St. Vincent & the Grenadines, St. Thomas, Trinidad & Tobago, USA, Venezuela, Virgin Islands, Brazil (Alagoas, Ceará, Rio de Janeiro, Rio Grande do Norte – present study, São Paulo) (Marcus, 1957, as E. cauze; Padula, 2008; Galvão-Filho et al., 2015).
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- GEEFAA , V
- Material sample ID
- GEEFAA 264, GEEFAA 282 , MZSP 97050, GEEFAA 310
- Event date
- 2009-06-21 , 2010-04-14
- Verbatim event date
- 2009-06-21/2010-02-28 , 2010-04-14/2013-04-27
- Scientific name authorship
- A. E. Verril
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Mollusca
- Order
- Cephalaspidea
- Family
- Plakobranchidae
- Genus
- Elysia
- Species
- subornata
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Elysia subornata Verril, 1901 sec. Delgado, Freire, Meirelles, Padula, Bahia & Brandão, 2022
References
- Marcus, E. 1957. On opisthobranchia from Brazil (2). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 43 (292): 390 - 486. https: // doi. org / 10.1111 / j. 1096 - 3642.1957. tb 01559. x.
- Padula, V. 2008. Notes on the morphology of Elysia subornata and Oxynoe antillarum (Mollusca, Opisthobranchia, Sacoglossa) from the State of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Strombus, 15 (2): 19 - 25.
- Galvao-Filho, H.; Araujo, A.; Silva, F.; Azevedo, V.; Meirelles, C. A. O. & Matthews-Cascon, H. 2015. Sea slugs (Gastropoda: Heterobranchia) from a poorly known area in North-east Brazil. Filling gaps in Atlantic distributions. Marine Biodiversity Records, 8 (e 115). https: // doi. org / 10.1017 / S 1755267215000494.